Using Transit, STAR’s translation memory system (first released in 1987), existing translations are re-used automatically resulting in shorter production cycles, significant cost savings, maximum return on investment and enhanced quality.

• Performance – Transit is an efficient file-based (vs. database) translation memory system that stays efficient, regardless of the size of the translation memory.
• Context – Transit’s file-based approach enables translators to understand the complete context at any time. Thus, reuse of prior translations becomes precise and correct.
• Multilingual – In contrast to bilingual database translation memory systems, Transit is multilingual – meaning that any target language, along with the complete context, can become the source language, resulting in greater efficiency during the translation process and higher overall translation quality.
• Configurability – Transit can adjust to any type of project with any volume, accommodating conventional standard software environments, personal user preferences, system and network environments, file formats, special characters, encoding, etc.
• Quality Assurance – To ensure quality after the completion of a translation project, Transit offers a variety of quality assurance features. The automatic check handler includes several formal and textual criteria, such as data integrity, spell checking and terminology control.
• Open System Architecture – Transit is XML-based and can easily be integrated into other systems via API’s.
• TMX – Transit’s support for TMX (Translation Memory Exchange) allows the exchange of translation memory with other translation memory systems.
• UNICODE – By applying Double Byte Unicode character encoding, Transit supports more than 160 languages, including languages, such as Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Hebrew.